Informal Council for the Copenhagen process (Education)
The Belgian presidency is organizing this two-yearly ministerial conference for the Copenhagen process (European collaboration in the field of vocational training and education). The ministers from 33 countries (the EU, EER and candidate member states) will look at the evaluation report for the last decade and set the priorities of the working programme for the new decade (2010-2020). The aim is to achieve strengthened European collaboration in the field of vocational training and education.
European collaboration in the field of vocational training and education is called the Copenhagen process. The collaborative agreement was signed in Copenhagen in November 2002. The Belgian presidency organises the two-yearly conference for this Copenhagen process. This takes place on 7 December 2010 in the Provinciaal Hof in Bruges. The process finds its origin in the agreements that were made during the previous Belgian presidency in 2001 in Bruges.
This symbolic location has therefore also been chosen this time. In Bruges, the ministers from 33 countries (the EU, EER and candidate member states) will look at the evaluation report for the last decade and set the priorities of the working programme for the new decade (2010-2020). The aim of this council of ministers is to achieve strengthened European collaboration in the field of vocational training and education.
Every day during the ministerial meeting, there will be a conference, also in Bruges, on themes from the Copenhagen process that appear in the Bologna process (European collaboration in the field of higher education). This conference will look at how quality assurance and transparency can close the gap between vocational training and education, schools and higher education, and so promote mobility and lifelong learning.
More information: educ.presidency@vlaanderen.be
